Ashley v. State

Full title: JAMES ASHLEY, APPELLANT, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Sep 28, 1994

642 So. 2d 837 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

Opinion

No. 93-2630.

September 28, 1994.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, Leslie B. Rothenberg, J.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Kenneth P. Speiller, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Angelica D. Zayas, Asst. Atty. Gen. for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, GERSTEN and GODERICH, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

"Under the invited-error doctrine, a party may not make or invite error at trial and then take advantage of the error on appeal." Czubak v. State, 570 So.2d 925, 928 (Fla. 1990). In the instant case, if any error was committed in honoring the defendant's demand for speedy trial, the defendant clearly invited the error. Therefore, the defendant can not take advantage on appeal of the situation he created at trial. White v. State, 446 So.2d 1031, 1036 (Fla. 1984); McCrae v. State, 395 So.2d 1145 (Fla. 1980), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1041, 102 S.Ct. 583, 70 L.Ed.2d 486 (1981).

Affirmed.